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Appendix I. Formulaic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions

Appendix I. Formulaic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions In the present appendix, formulae (or repetitions) that have occurred at least twice, word for word, are underlined; in contrast, formulae that are variations from other encountered word-clusters, and thus represent “varying formulae,” are presented in bold. The present texts merely serve the purposes of formulaic analysis and are not intended to be a critical reproduction of Kerdīr’s inscriptions. … Read more

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Appendix II. Thematic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions

Appendix II. Thematic Analysis of Kerdīr’s Inscriptions Theme 1: Naming u-m kunēd nām …… nām kerd hēm Theme 2: In the past, in the future pad ān zamān ōy zamānfrāzdar zamān Theme 3: After death parrōn ō widardān rōn ō widardān rōn Theme 4: Throughout the empire pad dar ud šahr ō šahr, gyāg… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Sources Classical Authors Ahbel-Rappe, Sara. 2010. Damascius’ Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles. Oxford. Ambaglio, Delfino. 1980. L’opera storiografica di Ellanico di Lesbo: Introduzione, tra-duzione delle testimonianze e dei frammenti, commento storico. Ricerche di Storiografia Antica 2. Pisa. Arnaud-Lindet, Marie-Pierre. 1990. Orose: Histoires (Contre les Païens), vol. 1: Livres I–III. Collection des universités de France. Read more

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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Anthony A. Long, Giovanni R. F. Ferrari, and Mark Griffith supervised my first work on this topic in Berkeley. I am grateful for their continuing support. That 2003 dissertation did not yet discuss Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Plato’s Phaedrus, the biographical genre, or Isocrates’ Philip (whereas it gave significant attention to the Crito and the Euthyphro), so it was a long process of development that has led… Read more

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Introduction

Introduction αἱ δὲ βίον σοφίῃσιν ἐκόσμεον. And some gave life the ornament of their wise arts. Orphic Catabasis, P. Bon. 4, fol. 3r, line 7 This book is a study of the professional, literary, political, and theoretical links between the school of Isocrates and the schools and careers of recognized philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. Read more

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Part I. Isocrates and Aristotle: An Entanglement. 1. The Influence of Rhetorical Education on Aristotelian Ethics: Knowledge, Training, and Performance

Chapter 1. The Influence of Rhetorical Education on Aristotelian Ethics: Knowledge, Training, and Performance The Nicomachean Ethics gives an account of a virtuous agent’s formation and practice. To appreciate this text fully, it is natural to want to know as much as possible about all the theoretical and technical discourses and ideas that informed Aristotle’s seminal work. This project of contextualization, while it will always be held… Read more

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Part I. Isocrates and Aristotle: An Entanglement. 2. Plato’s Concession to the Practical Arts in the Phaedrus

Chapter 2. Plato’s Concession to the Practical Arts in the Phaedrus One of the most important threads running through the intellectual history of the fifth and fourth centuries was the multidisciplinary attack on the question of what kind of art or science could hope to master the complexities of human experience. This was a question of theology, of history, of physiology, of politics, of rhetoric, and of… Read more

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Part I. Isocrates and Aristotle: An Entanglement. 3. Aristotle in the Afternoon: Rhetoric, Exoterica, and the Compromised Philosopher

Chapter 3. Aristotle in the Afternoon: Rhetoric, Exoterica, and the Compromised Philosopher The surviving Aristotelian corpus, which seems largely to preserve the teachings and discussions conducted by Aristotle within his school, contains multitudes enough for Aristotle’s followers and interpreters. It establishes Aristotle, on the one hand, as the original example of the philosopher who has bequeathed us (inter alia) a system, and any of whose works will… Read more

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Chapter 3. Greek Heroes and Christian Martyrs: In Defense of the Friends of God and Heroes of the Faith

Chapter 3. Greek Heroes and Christian Martyrs: In Defense of the Friends of God and Heroes of the Faith The account that Theodoret provides concerning the practice of honoring martyrs and their relics occupies a central position in his defense of Christianity. In Dialexis VIII. On the Cult of the Martyrs, he explains the importance of martyrs by suggesting the parallel notion of heroism and the cult… Read more

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Chapter 4. Christianity as the Universal Practical Virtue

Chapter 4. Christianity as the Universal Practical Virtue The presentation of Christianity as a way of life maintains a significant thematic resonance throughout Theodoret’s Therapeutikê. Following the long line of Christian authors who from an early stage offered Christianity as a response to pagan polemic, his motivation lay in the conviction that Christianity encompassed and surpassed all that ancient philosophy had attempted to accomplish. While Theodoret devotes… Read more